Trip to MOCA

I do not visit museums often. I have not been any on my own will. I remember as a young child going to the museum meant my mom packed me a lunch and my dad gave me $5 to spend. Things did not change completely, I  did receive five dollars from my professor that she received from a grant. What I am trying to say is that when I was a child I did not understand history, or the hardship people had gone through. At the museum of natural history I remember seeing cool things like birds that are extinct, the generations of mankind evolving. But MOCA was really different. As soon as you walk in like any other museum it is quiet. There was one room where just a bunch of laws against the Chinese were shown. Even though I did not take part of the discrimination the Chinese felt back then I was still very embarrassed on the behalf of the United States. The United States was known to be the land of the free, the land of opportunity.  They were mistaken, they were working long hours with barely any pay.  The Chinese had traveled to the United states for better opportunity, a better life style instead they settled being treated in ways that they just became used to it. The government tried to blame the immigrants for the shortage of jobs due to the population increasing. But it was not the Chinese to blame, it was corporate companies hiring cheap labor in order to make more revenue.

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